When I try to start my desktop cpu fan spins everything seems to be OK. But I don't hear any beep sound.
I tried starting desktop without RAM still I didn't get any beep sound.
The problem I see is ...

So I have a 16GB Kingston DataTraveler G4 USB Flash Drive and I used Rufus to make it bootable (I used GPT). Now, if I want to format it. It will unmount and leave me with an error saying that it can'...

I started to encounter a weird issues with my HDD recently. Random objects (files and/or directories) on my disk are vanishing/being corrupted on a boot time. I have noticed objects disappearing only ...

I got new Synology NAS server with 2 HDD. First one is 2 TB and second 6 TB. It automatically set everything and I just created user. Then I logged in and noticed that I can store my data only to the ...

On my computer, I have 5 drives that I set up as a Storage Space in 'Two-way mirror'.
The other day, I had the brilliant idea to test out unplugging one of the drives to see what would happen.
Turns ...

I've recently found my over 10 years old HDD that I've threw away years ago and decided to put it back into my computer to get more storage. Computer is working just fine, it's fast as it was before ...

I just installed a new SSD in the DVD slot and everything is fine, I just initialized and all, then I tried to install a Linux Distro that went ok. But when I tried to boot, my ssd is not recognized ...

I have an external hard drive, and I want to use it as a backup drive. So my question is "how to update a backup folder when the original folder gets updated?", I'm talking about an instant backup. As ...

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for some reason my seagate barracuda 4tb hardrive (ST4000DM004) is showing as a Microsoft storage space device with only 3.8 mgbs. i ...

I'm new to software RAID 1, hope I can seek some assistance in this forum.
My superior wish to have backup rather than soft RAID1.
How can I convert soft RAID 1 back to non RAID without any data lost
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I come here because i have a weird problem, i install xp but ever i run updates even cloudy or locally the system disk and network transfer lock in 3 to 4MBps.
if ran hiren's minixp the transfer of ...

While looking at the data on my local storage, using Active Killdisks hex editing software,I noticed there was data in a grayed out area beyond what Killdisk recognized as the end of the disk and I ...

How can I have more than five concurrent torrent downloading with transmission WD MyCloud? I've seen an article where I can edit the .json (How to have more than five torrents downloading concurrently ...

Currently trying to find a BULLET proof way to find the sector size of a FLASH based device (testing with USB thumb drive), not getting a convincing reply anywhere else
using stat gives me the size = ...

The sector-A and sector-B, the arc length are different, but they representing data capacity are same, such as 512KB.
you see, whether the different cylinder sector's density is different?
and if we ...

I have a CentOS7.2 named test-CentOS7_64, which only have one disk(sda).
and now I have another VM which also have sda, I want to use the VM to load the test-CentOS7_64's disk sda to sdb, how to do ...

I recently bought an 8TB WB MyBook and shucked the case to use the WD Red drive inside a PC. I test the drive in the enclosure befre shucking. I can't get 1 of my systems to recognize this drive.
I ...

I'm using Ubuntu MATE and fairly frequently I will try to boot my computer only to be faced by some "rescue mode" or failure screen from which I follow online guides which direct me into updating and ...

I recently removed my old harddrive from my linux machine, as the linux was corrupted due to accidental deletion of /bin folder. I have inserted a new harddisk and installed a new linux system (which ...

I want to check my NFS performance. Here I am trying to launch the application and I want to check the IO latency.
Here I am using ioping to check the IO latency. As ioping has a different I/O type, ...

I have a WD Green 6TB HDD with data on it. When I plug it into either macOS or Windows, it always shows as 18TB empty.
I'm using a SATA to USB 3 adapter to connect it, and it seems that it's lacking ...

This is one of those I have seen it happen often enough to know it happens issues but is intermittent enough to lose sight of it and impossible to "prove".
I am in a big corporate environment using ...

I have a new WD 6TB drive, I boot from Windows10 USB, It originally partitioned the drive as MBR, Windows installed, however I could only use 2TB of the 6TB drive and it would not let me create more ...

My Orange pi boots from a 32 GBs memory card on which I've set up a Raspbian OS. But, the problem is that when I attach my 2 TB external hard disk to the USB slot, it starts looking for the OS on my ...

In trying to revive an old laptop (Asus N56VZ) so my brother can use it for school, I installed an SSD where the HDD used to be, to speed it up. True enough, the general speed of the laptop increased ...

I do not care about any data on the drive and I do not intend to store important data on the drive in future - this is purely an academic exercise!
Attempting to read or write results in a failure:
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My old laptop that I do a lot of work on is starting to die. I have a lot of really important programs on there that would suck to lose.
Is there a way to perhaps copy these programs and allow them ...

I have an old laptop that is starting to die. I have really important programs and files on that laptop, and I'm worried that the hard drive will soon fail.
Is there a way to create an exact copy of ...